Recently purchased music is being tossed into "Media/Music/" instead of its parent directory "Music/"

Digging around in Music, I found that the Settings: Files: Media Location: was changed, apparently creating this nonsense. Why did this happen? I believe it's because I ran the 'Consolidate files' command. Therefore, it is THAT command that changed the default location of newly added music. [Expletives]

-> I am changing the Media Location to the original setting, where it belongs, removing the extraneous files location. That very slow process is running. I will post the results.

And this wild thing is now the default for the Music app, under Settings/Files/Media Location:

-> If you hit the "Reset" button, it creates this as the new Media Location, all on its own: ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Media/

AHA. That's where the chaos begins. √

Therefore, as part of my recently trying to clean up previous messes Music had made, I must have hit that Reset button. Therefore, any new music was tossed into that wrong, inexplicable location. THAT figures out the source of the original problem!

And trying to repair this wrong default folder by manually setting the Media Location to the correct location tore open an even worse bug to overcome. [expletives]

Manually setting the Media Location back to what it's supposed to be resulting in a very long process of reorganizing the Music files. At its completion, I found that the locations of two of the three mis-placed albums were corrected. Yay. But the third album was NOT. I'm going have to move the thing by hand. [groaning sounds] So no, the Music app does not fully correct it's own database and file system blundering, IOW here's another bug.

This bug is specific to: "Recently purchased music" only. The bug enacted this nonsense specifically today, including the music I purchased back on October 4, 2025. That purchased music used to be in the correct space. Today, specifically, it was moved to the nonsense folder. Why music I bought in October only? Inexplicable. Then again, the reason I ran 'Consolidate files' was an attempt to get the Music app to sort out the repeated, lunatic mess it had made over time. [I'll skip going into that craziness and suppress further well deserved expletives.]

AND the final blow, the one that knocked out all faith in Apple's Music app.

-> After the app's reorganization, it pulled this insane move. And yes, this is insane:

(1) It created a new "Music" folder inside the "Music" folder. I now have this path: '~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Music/'. Figure that one out.

(2) It randomly (not kidding) split artist folders up by albums and randomly created new artist folders inside the newly created /Music/Music/ folder. Example: It took my Rusty Egan collection and split it up into two Rusty Egan folders. The album folders are intact but they're randomly split between the /Music/ and /Music/Music/ parent folders. All told: Of 86.66 GB of music on my Mac, 80.08 GB are in the /Music/Music/ folder.

-> The Settings did keep "Media Location" as I had manually set it. So HOW has the Music app managed to BREAK that setting and create the /Music/Music/ abomination?

What is there to do at this point, apart from give up on this buggy [expletive]? I don't know. I want to give up.

• Call Apple and chatter for hours and they do nothing to look into the problems and overhaul Music?
• Send in yet another detailed Feedback Assistant report for them to ignore, like the many others I've already sent in about Music?
• Start from scratch with all traces of the ruined Music database erased from my Mac, then drop my entire 86.66 GB onto the virgin-zed Music app?

I have no patience for any of this GUI user hostility created by Apple.

To add further mayhem, this interface removed my ability to Edit this post. How? Why?

So here is the edited version, adding my discovery that the Music app actually split up album tunes as well as albums into /Music/ and /Music/Music/. (o_0)

...AND the final blow, the one that knocked out all faith in Apple's Music app.

-> After the app's reorganization, it pulled this insane move. And yes, this is insane:

(1) It created a new "Music" folder inside the "Music" folder. I now have this path: '~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Music/'. Figure that one out.

(2) It randomly (not kidding) split artist folders up by albums and randomly created new artist folders inside the newly created /Music/Music/ folder. OH AND it split up several album's tunes between the two Music folder. It's an incredible mess. Example: It took my Rusty Egan collection and split it up into two Rusty Egan folders and took split tunes from the original album into each of the Rusty Egan folders. All told: Of 86.66 GB of music on my Mac, 80.08 GB are in the lunatic /Music/Music/ folder.

-> The Settings did keep "Media Location" as I had manually set it. So HOW has the Music app managed to BREAK that setting and create the /Music/Music/ abomination?

What is there to do at this point, apart from give up on this buggy [expletive]? I don't know. I want to give up.

Call Apple and chatter for hours and they do nothing to look into the problems and overhaul Music?

Send in yet another detailed Feedback Assistant report for them to ignore, like the many others I've already sent in about Music?

Start from scratch with all traces of the ruined Music database erased from my Mac, then drop my entire 86.66 GB onto the virgin-zed Music app?

I have no patience for any of this GUI user hostility created by Apple.